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Movies like The Thing About Bannon's Lookout (2006)

The best movies like The Thing About Bannon's Lookout (2006) are Play Dead (2025), A Nun's Curse (2020) and The Boy Behind the Door (2020). If The Thing About Bannon's Lookout hooked you with its horror, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. Play Dead (2025)

    A woman wakes up injured in a basement surrounded by corpses. To survive, she pretends to be dead while a grotesque ritual unfolds in the house above.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  2. A Nun's Curse (2020)

    A group of travelers are forced to seek shelter inside an abandoned jail where a notorious nun named Sister Monday had once been assigned and was suspected of murdering prisoners.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  3. The Boy Behind the Door (2020)

    Bobby tries to save himself and his best friend when they are kidnapped on their way home from school.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  4. Reborn (2018)

    A stillborn baby girl is abducted by a deranged morgue attendant and brought back to life by electro-kinetic power. On her sixteenth birthday, traumatized Tess escapes captivity and sets out to find her birth mother leaving a trail of horrifying violent destruction and chilling chaos behind her.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  5. Saw (2003)

    David, an orderly at a hospital, tells his horrific story of being kidnapped and forced to play a vile game of survival.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  6. Whisper (2007)

    Sinister things begin happening to kidnappers who are holding a young boy for ransom in a remote cabin.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  7. The Devil Comes at Night (2023)

    A washed up boxer searching for his inheritance must fight for his life when he is trapped in his deceased father's farmhouse by a local cannibal cult.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  8. Dead of Winter (1987)

    A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  9. Saint Catherine (2024)

    An orphaned girl is rescued from a satanic ritual and taken to Saint Catherine Institute for homeless youth. There she will learn new skills while facing demons that stalk her.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  10. The Haunting of Alcatraz (2020)

    Alcatraz. 1937. A young prison guard working the night shift experiences a string of chilling disturbances culminating in the bizarre death of an inmate at the most famous prison in the world

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  11. The Last Breath (2024)

    A group of old college friends reunite on a Caribbean scuba diving trip exploring the wreckage of a WWII battleship and find themselves trapped inside the underwater labyrinth of rusted metal surrounded by great white sharks.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  12. The Evil (1978)

    Shortly after moving into a dark, brooding mansion, a psychologist and his co-workers are terrorized by a horrible evil being.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

  13. Eradication (2022)

    When an unknown disease wipes out most of the world’s population, a man with unique blood is isolated for study. Fearing for his wife’s safety, he breaks his quarantine – into a world overrun by monstrous Infected and a shadowy agency hunting them down.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  14. God Is a Bullet (2023)

    Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the help of the cult’s only female victim escapee, Case Hardin.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  15. The Boogeyman (2023)

    Still reeling from the tragic death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves plagued by a sadistic presence in their house and struggle to get their grieving father to pay attention before it’s too late.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  16. Grindhouse (2007)

    Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who kills young women with modified vehicles. It is presented as a double feature with fictitious exploitation trailers preceding each segment.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  17. The Asphyx (1972)

    Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question...What is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects?

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  18. Daddy's Little Girl (2014)

    After the police find Derek’s daughter brutally murdered on the beach, he vows to make the culprit suffer for his actions, even if that person is ‘part of the family.’ With careful research into the history of torture, Derek prepares himself and his basement for a week of brutal tactics that will make his daughter’s killer feel the pain that he has inflicted upon so many others. In a time when stranger danger is ever present, a single father learns that it’s the ones you trust most who have to be watched the closest.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  19. Barbarian (2022)

    In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  20. The Deliverance (2024)

    Ebony Jackson, a struggling single mother fighting her personal demons, moves her family into a new home for a fresh start. But when strange occurrences inside the home raise the suspicions of Child Protective Services and threaten to tear the family apart, Ebony soon finds herself locked in a battle for her life and the souls of her children.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like The Thing About Bannon's Lookout?

The closest matches to The Thing About Bannon's Lookout are Play Dead (2025), A Nun's Curse (2020) and The Boy Behind the Door (2020). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after The Thing About Bannon's Lookout?

Start with Play Dead (2025), the closest match to The Thing About Bannon's Lookout.

What is the highest-rated movie like The Thing About Bannon's Lookout?

Saw (2003), rated 7.0/10 by 706 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like The Thing About Bannon's Lookout?

Play Dead (2025) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there English movies like The Thing About Bannon's Lookout?

Yes: Play Dead (2025), A Nun's Curse (2020) and The Boy Behind the Door (2020).

How are movies similar to The Thing About Bannon's Lookout chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Thing About Bannon's Lookout, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

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